John Dewey Famous Quotes
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
"There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing."
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it."
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
John Dewey Quotations
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
Saul Bellow
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp
Exploit or get exploited.
B J Gupta
"Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them."
Christopher Darlington Morley
"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
Dan Quayle
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
James Albert Michener
"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Eva Young
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
Charles Baudelaire